Freewriting Exercises

Freewriting is not more than putting what is on your mind down onto a paper. Now, going deeper into what freewriting means, there are two basic rules to follow when freewriting, and those are: first, it has to be short, and second, but most important, never stop writing. During freewriting, you would normally have a topic, if it is for a class or a particular paper that you are working on, which you would have to write about for some time between 10 to 15 minutes. The topic is normally meant for you to have a starting point, sometimes you’ll find yourself writing about stuff unrelated to the original topic, and that ok; the whole idea here is to make it easier for you, and me, to write without “editing” ourselves minds, because there is where I personally find myself getting stock the most trying to find the right word or phrase.
The purpose of freewriting is to help create a smooth and less painful way of writing. Of course, freewriting is not a new magical wand that will help you get the job done in one simple step; on the contrariety, freewriting would most likely add more writing to your usual way of doing papers. The magic on this method is that if you practice it with regularity it promises to take away some of the fears that come hand-to-hand with the word “write”. This technique is meant to liberate us from all the grammatical rules, and fears of misspelling that in many occasions frustrated us to the point where we decided to quit, and just focus on writing.
What is great about this technique is that you can even turn it into a freewriting dairy, that way it doesn’t really feel like you doing school work. Simply take 10 minutes before going to bed, or at any free moment that you possibly can and write about your day. It feels like this is just what I needed to lose some of the fears that have been hunting me for many years. I’ll see how it goes; hopefully it helps me improve my writing skills.